Unilin and Välinge announced they are now cooperating to track licensed mechanically locking laminate flooring with the hologram barcode system Unilin implemented on Jan. 1.

The license to click (L2C) label program requires laminate floor manufacturers licensing click systems from Unilin and/or Välinge to place holographic barcodes on their products for easy tracking and to distinguish them from infringing competitors, according to Bart Van der Stockt, managing director of Flooring Industries, the intellectual property unit of Unilin.

“Unilin and Välinge receive many complaints from licensed manufacturers, importers and distributors that certain manufacturers are not complying with their contractual license obligations,” said Van der Stockt. “These non-complying manufacturers seriously damage the competitiveness of the manufacturers that are honoring their contractual commitments. In order to stop this unfair competition and prevent patent infringement, it was decided to introduce this numerically controlled identification label program.”